bayes DB not growing

[Martin Hepworth]

Arif

If you aren't running MailScanner as a non-root user make sure the
permissions on the bayes dir is fine

As someone else suggested, backup the bayes DB with sa-learn --backup,
delete the bayes files and then restore the bayes db.


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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Arif Malik wrote:
> thanks for the reply, Martin! I checked all the confs I could find, and
> the only one I found is identical to what you pasted below... still I
> get every message showing "autolearn=spam". Shouldn't anything under 12
> points be marked as "autolearn=no"? and anything under .1
> "autolearn=ham" ?? when I run sa-learn --dump magic, it looks like the
> number of spams is not growing, so it doesn't appear to actually be
> feeding it to bayes...
>
>  I just did a test also to see if anything is being fed to bayes, and
> changed the bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam to 4 - since every message I
> am receiving currently is spam anyways, I figured I could have that
> number low - but when I sa-learn --dump magic the number of spams is not
> growing. And still, every message is tagged with "autolearn=spam".
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:24 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: bayes DB not growing
>
> Looks like the autolearn threshhold is too low to me.
>
> the defaults in /usr/local/share/spamassassin/10_misc.cf are
>
> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam   0.1
> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam              12.0
>
> I'd make sure you're not overriding these values in any of your site
> specific rules in /etc/mail/spamassassin or spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Arif Malik wrote:
>
>> ok sorry, now that I am using the bayes starter kit thing, I do have
>>something like this in my logs:
>>BAYES_95 2.06
>>
>>so that part looks good to me - but now I am just worried about the
>>autolearn=spam thing - from what I have read, messages tagged like
>>this are fed to the bayes filter as spam... but EVERY one of my
>>messages is showing this, even the ones that arent tagged as spam...
>>so I am worried the ham messages are being fed to it as well.
>>
>
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